Rick Thomas [2025-09-09 00:46:15] wrote: > The RaspberryPI-5 now comes with enough RAM to make it a reasonable choice > for a desktop personal computer. It comes with a version of Raspbian OS > that works quite well. However, I would prefer to have a plain-vanilla > Debian OS, because that's what I'm most familiar with. Does such a thing > exist? If so, where can I download it?
https://sd-card-images.johang.se/ has vanilla U-Boot + Debian images for many ARM boards, including RPis. AFAICT there's no image for RPi5, presumably because of lack of support for that hardware either in vanilla U-Boot or in vanilla Linux. > Is it compatible enough with PC-Windows for me to recommend it to my > friends who are life-time Windows users? IMO, friends don't help friends run Windows. 🙂 [ More seriously, I suspect it would combine the worst of both worlds: the lack of support (and accompanying need to learn^H^H^H^H^Hget your hands dirty) typical of GNU/Linux, while being stuck with a proprietary system. ] Stefan
